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If you're into technology that can stroll convincingly like a human, or creep, roll, climb, spy, and even deliver drinks with uncanny mechanical smoothness, then you've come to the right place. In our second installment of This Week In Bots we share tiny flying drones, amazing magnetic climbing spy machines...and a friendly NASA thespian robot

The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed. Facebook didn’t spend eighteen months and tens of millions of dollars developing more powerful--and more energy efficient--data centers and servers so that it could go into the hardware business

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. AOL Forced to Hire New Engadget Editor After EIC Bails After Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky and the entire senior staff left to start a competitor site, Engadget knighted automotive editor Tim Stevens as a replacement. The defections highlight growing disdain for the " AOL Way ," which includes quotas for page views and prioritizing search-engine driven content.

Kinect hacks are often impressive, revealing how powerful the Microsoft device actually is. A new one that combines 3-D modelling, data gloves, and gesture control, hints at how you may control your PC in the near future. Hacker Sebastian was trying to explore how a functional man-machine interface could be made with Kinect--a more "scientific" kind of hack than some of the fun and arty ones we've seen, and mirroring all sorts of million-dollar research that companies like Microsoft are themselves exploring (because more natural ways of interacting with PCs are definitely on the horizon)

Could Flattr be the future of making a living doing what you love? When you sign up for Flattr, a social micropayments service, you dedicate a flat fee per month to the site.